Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[rancher hicks]

I have joined the swap. Can't wait to see what the final product looks like

I just finished two of the large. All the small are done. I don't care for the needle size for the large. I'm considering making just the small but surrounded with black to make a traditional type granny.

 

[rancher hicks]

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Not true, depending on where one lived even the poor where at least some what literate, they may have had only access to a very few books and newspapers but many many families whom where poor learned if nothing else by reading a family Bible.
I figure from the wording on the letters wrote to ask about their Civil War pension that mine were not literate. Letters to his mother have words spelled wrong. "time to ansor" "you have herd" "it has ben". "A smal los " "Ben Jackson ses that i am so fat & lazy that he dont no what he shall do with me" 1864

They had help writing letters to the office to get their pension money. I do know he must have had skills in wood working. It's noted that he was a cooper and carpenter. I've yet to check into connections to the Erie Canal. I know they lived near the canal as did my other relatives. The Caples knew the Werhli's. Caples being on one side of my grandmother and Werhli's being the other.

Now the cook book I have is Southern Cook Book 322 Old Dixie Recipes. 1939. It has some very racist poems in it. The first recipe for Kentucky Burgoo makes 1200 gallons, calls for 600 pound of lean meat, 2000 pounds of potatoes, plus other large quantities of ingredients.

I have the Alabama food preservation 1951, Polytech institute.

I have two "Church" cookbooks No dates.
I think it's the St. Peter's Church Brockville , Ontario has recipes with now oven temps. My take is that they were using the old wood stoves. I have seen and had a friend who had a stove top oven.

 

[Ibicella]

I suffer from depression and it's hard to get going most days, until I got chickens. quote

Back to nature is the best remedy for mental issues. My son's best buddy has ptsd from this middle east thing and the best thing for him is to go out and watch wildlife, quiet, peaceful, no one shooting at him. Better than all the drugs he was on. And, in the country, when he has nightmares/flashbacks he can stroll outside and hear the creek, listen to the owls--brings him back to center.

I'm yet another Anxiety/Depression/PTSD sufferer. My chickens are the BEST medicine. The other day I went outside when everything was acting up and making me very sick and tired, and just sat outside. My Red Ranger Buffy (who is all about the laps *L*) came and hopped up into my lap and laid her head down. We dozed together in the sweet summer breezes. It really, was a huge relief for my symptoms. <3

 

[Double Kindness]

Well I'm not much of a drinker anyways, so I don't have issue staying away from beer & whiskey, but I do drink wine and cordials made from non grain alcohol.

Some oats have gluten in them, some do not. It seems the oats not grown near wheat, barley or rye are ok, as long as they aren't processed in a way that contaminate the oats. Barley has gluten, therefore not understanding why you are using it as a base in gluten-free feed?

I wear long gloves and a mask to feed to not breathe in/touch the feed especially when I'm pouring it into buckets to ferment it for them, as I started breaking out in a rash everywhere the feed was contacting me.

My polish is in the nesting box today, I hope I get my first egg from her. My rooster is doing a big announcement, so something like that probably happened. I had noticed the other day he danced for her and she got all down in the submission position and he mated her. So it's about time for eggs from her I guess.

Which leaves only 3 of my pullets getting ready to start laying.

I just can't get over how appalled some of my friends are that I'm going to eat the chickens I'm raising right now. My bf teases me when I worry if everyone is happy. Even though that batch is headed to freezer camp. Happy chickens taste better.

 

[oldrooster]

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Not true, depending on where one lived even the poor where at least some what literate, they may have had only access to a very few books and newspapers but many many families whom where poor learned if nothing else by reading a family Bible.
I figure from the wording on the letters wrote to ask about their Civil War pension that mine were not literate. Letters to his mother have words spelled wrong. "time to ansor" "you have herd" "it has ben". "A smal los " "Ben Jackson ses that i am so fat & lazy that he dont no what he shall do with me" 1864

They had help writing letters to the office to get their pension money. I do know he must have had skills in wood working. It's noted that he was a cooper and carpenter. I've yet to check into connections to the Erie Canal. I know they lived near the canal as did my other relatives. The Caples knew the Werhli's. Caples being on one side of my grandmother and Werhli's being the other.

Now the cook book I have is Southern Cook Book 322 Old Dixie Recipes. 1939. It has some very racist poems in it. The first recipe for Kentucky Burgoo makes 1200 gallons, calls for 600 pound of lean meat, 2000 pounds of potatoes, plus other large quantities of ingredients.

I have the Alabama food preservation 1951, Polytech institute.

I have two "Church" cookbooks No dates.
I think it's the St. Peter's Church Brockville , Ontario has recipes with now oven temps. My take is that they were using the old wood stoves. I have seen and had a friend who had a stove top oven.

If he misspelled words such as you described, he was not totally illiterate there is a difference between not being able to read and write at all and not being able to function at what er call a fourth grade level. I was taught in the mid- 80's in school that newspapers and general magazines (such as time life reader's digest) where supposed to be written at the 4th grade level for 2 reasons, to help schools and families to educate children in reading, writing styles, and sentence structure and current events. and a secondary reason, was to provide information to the semi-literate. people (also that would include those whom are disabled and cannot comprehend beyond that level due to their disability).

 

[oldrooster]

Not true, depending on where one lived even the poor where at least some what literate, they may have had only access to a very few books and newspapers but many many families whom where poor learned if nothing else by reading a family Bible.


I figure from the wording on the letters wrote to ask about their Civil War pension that mine were not literate. Letters to his mother have words spelled wrong. "time to ansor" "you have herd" "it has ben". "A smal los " "Ben Jackson ses that i am so fat & lazy that he dont no what he shall do with me" 1864





They had help writing letters to the office to get their pension money. I do know he must have had skills in wood working. It's noted that he was a cooper and carpenter. I've yet to check into connections to the Erie Canal. I know they lived near the canal as did my other relatives. The Caples knew the Werhli's. Caples being on one side of my grandmother and Werhli's being the other.





Now the cook book I have is Southern Cook Book 322 Old Dixie Recipes. 1939. It has some very racist poems in it. The first recipe for Kentucky Burgoo makes 1200 gallons, calls for 600 pound of lean meat, 2000 pounds of potatoes, plus other large quantities of ingredients.





I have the Alabama food preservation 1951, Polytech institute.





I have two "Church" cookbooks No dates.


I think it's the St. Peter's Church Brockville , Ontario has recipes with now oven temps. My take is that they were using the old wood stoves. I have seen and had a friend who had a stove top oven.



If he misspelled words such as you described, he was not totally illiterate there is a difference between not being able to read and write at all and not being able to function at what er call a fourth grade level. I was taught in the mid- 80's in school that newspapers and general magazines (such as time life reader's digest) where supposed to be written at the 4th grade level for 2 reasons, to help schools and families to educate children in reading, writing styles, and sentence structure and current events. and a secondary reason, was to provide information to the semi-literate. people (also that would include those whom are disabled and cannot comprehend beyond that level due to their disability).

In addition, when I was in school a girl whom I started school with was held back by her parents because she could read a grade level below where she was supposed to be and write a half grade below that, she was tutored most of the first time she went thru that grade and during the first third of the next year when she repeated it so she ended up almost where she should have been if promoted. But her parents knew it would have been harder to catch her up had she stayed in my class. Yes she had difficulty in her reading and writing but was not totally illiterate.

 

[campingshaws]

So something silly that someone said about chickens...

I was watching Utopia last night because somehow it showed up on my dvr??? And they were tending a flock of chickens. One lady let them out to range and the other women PANICKED because the chickens were scratching in the cow manure. They stormed away and found the first lady and demanded that she put them away because they didn't want to eat cow poop eggs.

I had a good eye roll at that.

 

[Crickett]

Cow poop eggs? Oh horrors! (Extreme sarcasm here) They would surely faint if they saw what my girls eat in a typical day : maggots (from scratching in rabbit manure) , frogs, toads, lizards ,not to mention any and all bugs they can find, weeds grass, sand small rocks, plus their feed.

 

[Farm Girl 1]

So something silly that someone said about chickens...

I was watching Utopia last night because somehow it showed up on my dvr??? And they were tending a flock of chickens. One lady let them out to range and the other women PANICKED because the chickens were scratching in the cow manure. They stormed away and found the first lady and demanded that she put them away because they didn't want to eat cow poop eggs.

I had a good eye roll at that.

Cow poop eggs... some people...

 

[hennible]

Omg we surly won't survive in a world with cow poo eggs